A PERCEPTUAL ZONE: Yen-Ching Lin

A Perceptual Zone is a month-long exploration of dance in dialogue with the elements. Born from bodies attuning to land, season, and storm, it coalesces in continual contact with the biosphere.Dance arises from the necessity to respond, moving in step with shifting conditions, shaped by the forces of nature. It is an origin of ecological art: wisdom inscribed in fascia, constellations of movement resonant with animal and elemental intelligences. It proposes an ethics of listening and being-with. It unfolds as a communion with what exceeds the self: the stretch of trees into sky, vibration of soil, pressure of air, gravitational pull of another body, the throb of the cosmos. In this reciprocity, rhythm becomes a living cycle — an environmental intimacy through which the human is re-imagined.

Throughout October, artists Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Nicol Vizioli, Nissa Nishikawa, Kapila Venu, Lewis Walker, and Yen-Ching Lin offer workshops, installations, film, photography, and performance. Their practices, experimental and traditional, are gestures that honour the earth while remembering dance as both instinct and offering.

A Perceptual Zone is not performance alone. It is an opening, a space of witnessing, where dance becomes relation, navigating the currents of co-existence.

WORKSHOPS: INNER SPACE | OUTER SPACE with Yen-Ching LinINNER SPACE | OUTER SPACE is an improvisational movement workshop allowing participants to tap into hybrid states of being as part of a psycho-somatic liberation. The session begins with a shaking and moving meditation, encouraging any blocks in your body and being to melt away, bringing a liquid flow into different part of the body and mind. Through improvisation, we will focus on different sensations and qualities - deepening awareness, exploring inner/outer space and echoing the dynamics of nature to connect body and emotions in each moment.

No dance background necessary.

• Wednesday Oct 22nd at 10am - 11:30am
• Thursday Oct 23rd at 10am -11:30am
• Friday Oct 24th at 10am - 11:30am

Suggested donation for workshops 15 pounds (cash). Please email us if you are experiencing financial challenges. No one will be turned away.

Sat 25th Oct 7-8pm Public sharing Session - £15